Skip to content

The Missed Call in NFC Champ. Game

The Browns Board
69 26 2.1k
  • lol...you think thats a good analogy?  you forgot the part where the called third strike was so far out of the strike zone that the catcher had to move off the plate just to keep the ball from going to the backstop.  

    otherwise, this nonsensical "logic" is just excuse making.  the saints were driving and were in position to put the game away...decisions or mistakes prior to that dont change the fact the saints were in position to put the game away.  and that was changed by one non-call...had that call been made, saints merely had to kneel to run out the clock.  nothing prior to the non-call changes the fact that the non-call had a huge impact on the game at that point.  i wonder how you feet about the browns getting jobbed in the bad spot in oakland...

    so, the basis of you point is simple..."saints should have scored more and not made mistakes".  thats absofuckinglutely brilliant...and completely ignores the other team also has good players, and is also trying to win the game.

    really...that is such a sad defense of an indefensible position.

  • Take 2 pills and call 811...... The Waaaaambulance

  • great retort...got your legs cut out from under ya and you think im the one crying??

  • The shit is out of hand, Any NFL player will tell you Holding happens on every single play, and it is the refs call if they want to throw a flag or not. That is bullshit, No play should be a judgement call for the refs. Just like many of you guys I can name hundreds if not thousands of plays where the refs fucked us for no reason at all, and yes it has happened to other teams as well but it should never happen. Just like that bullshit game agains the Skins a few years back, Duke Johnson came out of the pile with the ball, whil the refs were still uncovering the pile but that **MASK** ref already awarded the Skins the ball. They could not challenge that? WTF? same game and same ref threw 2 DPI calls on Haden when video replay showed no contact, like several years back, we stopped Pispuke on 4th and goal but for no reason  at all they awarded Pisspuke the First down. It is hard to argue that the refs don't rig games when shit like this happens. But I guess we have to keep in mind that the courts already had argued and the NFL won the case  that the NFL is sports entertainment not competition.

  • @d-bone said:

    Jeez...... missed or bad calls have been a part of every single sport, at every single level, since that sport was invented. 

    Boohoo..... get over it already for fucksake. 

    I agree that everyone except the Saints and their fans should get over it.    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to in the AFC title game, I still wouldn't be over it.  

    But hopefully this forces the league to address how bad the refs performance was pretty much all season.   I don't remember a year when there were so many not just bad calls, but calls that were hard to believe they were called or not called. 

    @mark-o said:

    I agree that everyone except the Saints and their fans should get over it.    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to in the AFC title game, I still wouldn't be over it.  

    But hopefully this forces the league to address how bad the refs performance was pretty much all season.   I don't remember a year when there were so many not just bad calls, but calls that were hard to believe they were called or not called. 

    We are not over the fact that the refs got the call on Karliss's kick wrong.....in the 1986 AFC title game. 

    I mean, after that the league extended the height of the goal posts so that that issue has hardly ever come up again.

  • @choco said:

    irrelevant...having lost a lead has absolutely nothing to do with the blown call...its a red herring used by folks like you to excuse the incompetence int he product we are served.

    at that point in the game, the call changed the likely outcome of the game.  what happened prior to that point is irrelevant.

    You'd be a great little league parent.....

    In the bottom of the 7th little Jenny takes a ball at her shoulders on a full count, 2 outs, bases loaded, down 1 and the ump calls it strike 3 to end the game..... everyone loses their minds. "The ump took the game away from us"....... oh yea?

    What about the bases loaded in the bottom of the 1st and our 4, 5 and 6 hitters all go down looking?

    What about the over throw by the 3B into the dugout with 2 outs and bases loaded in the top of the 3rd that let 2 runs score?

    What about the missed call by the batter on a suicide squeeze that got our runner thrown out in the 5th?

    ^ Yep, the ump cost us the game alright......... 

    @d-bone said:

    You'd be a great little league parent.....

    In the bottom of the 7th little Jenny takes a ball at her shoulders on a full count, 2 outs, bases loaded, down 1 and the ump calls it strike 3 to end the game..... everyone loses their minds. "The ump took the game away from us"....... oh yea?

    What about the bases loaded in the bottom of the 1st and our 4, 5 and 6 hitters all go down looking?

    What about the over throw by the 3B into the dugout with 2 outs and bases loaded in the top of the 3rd that let 2 runs score?

    What about the missed call by the batter on a suicide squeeze that got our runner thrown out in the 5th?

    ^ Yep, the ump cost us the game alright......... 

    I feel you. But it’s about perspective. And the ref shouldn’t have control in the outcome of the game by not doing there job and throwing the flag.

    Coaches should get 1 penalty challenge flag per game(one additional if they win the challenge), where they can replay challenge a BS call or no call. Simple fix.

  • @mark-o said:

    I agree that everyone except the Saints and their fans should get over it.    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to in the AFC title game, I still wouldn't be over it.  

    But hopefully this forces the league to address how bad the refs performance was pretty much all season.   I don't remember a year when there were so many not just bad calls, but calls that were hard to believe they were called or not called. 

    We are not over the fact that the refs got the call on Karliss's kick wrong.....in the 1986 AFC title game. 

    I mean, after that the league extended the height of the goal posts so that that issue has hardly ever come up again.

    @the-gipper said:

    We are not over the fact that the refs got the call on Karliss's kick wrong.....in the 1986 AFC title game. 

    I mean, after that the league extended the height of the goal posts so that that issue has hardly ever come up again.

    I'm over it.    it was 33 years ago.  

  • @the-gipper said:

    We are not over the fact that the refs got the call on Karliss's kick wrong.....in the 1986 AFC title game. 

    I mean, after that the league extended the height of the goal posts so that that issue has hardly ever come up again.

    I'm over it.    it was 33 years ago.  

    @mark-o said:

    I'm over it.    it was 33 years ago.  

    Good for you.   

    But we could take a poll:    Who either is....or is not  "over"  the bad call by the refs in the 1986 title game?

    Just remember this:  

    The Godfather, 1969: Don Corleone nodded. "Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold," he said.
    Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn, 1982: Kirk, old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb, "Revenge is a dish best served cold"?

  • @d-bone said:

    Jeez...... missed or bad calls have been a part of every single sport, at every single level, since that sport was invented. 

    Boohoo..... get over it already for fucksake. 

    I agree that everyone except the Saints and their fans should get over it.    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to in the AFC title game, I still wouldn't be over it.  

    But hopefully this forces the league to address how bad the refs performance was pretty much all season.   I don't remember a year when there were so many not just bad calls, but calls that were hard to believe they were called or not called. 

    @mark-o said:

    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to

    I was in the stadium when the refs totally failed on the Browns TD when they returned the Ravens fumble.. which lost us the game.  Every Ravens fan [seats are expensive, they're smart] around me agreed we should have had the TD. I'm over it.

    Refs admitted they missed multiple calls which would have given us a win vs Raiders - and therefore put us in the playoffs if the above fumble had been called correctly.

  • @mark-o said:

    I know if that was the Browns that it happened to

    I was in the stadium when the refs totally failed on the Browns TD when they returned the Ravens fumble.. which lost us the game.  Every Ravens fan [seats are expensive, they're smart] around me agreed we should have had the TD. I'm over it.

    Refs admitted they missed multiple calls which would have given us a win vs Raiders - and therefore put us in the playoffs if the above fumble had been called correctly.

    @unsympathetic said:

    I was in the stadium when the refs totally failed on the Browns TD when they returned the Ravens fumble.. which lost us the game.  Every Ravens fan [seats are expensive, they're smart] around me agreed we should have had the TD. I'm over it.

    Refs admitted they missed multiple calls which would have given us a win vs Raiders - and therefore put us in the playoffs if the above fumble had been called correctly.

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

  • @unsympathetic said:

    I was in the stadium when the refs totally failed on the Browns TD when they returned the Ravens fumble.. which lost us the game.  Every Ravens fan [seats are expensive, they're smart] around me agreed we should have had the TD. I'm over it.

    Refs admitted they missed multiple calls which would have given us a win vs Raiders - and therefore put us in the playoffs if the above fumble had been called correctly.

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    @dutch-oven said:

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    While the setting for the bad calls is not nearly as dramatic,  the problem is the same:  refs making terrible calls.

    Besides....in  sense, those bad calls could theoretically have been just as important.   Those bad calls lose the Browns a game....a game which, if they had won, would have meant that they could have possibly still had a chance to make a playoff spot.

    In that context, it certainly was NOT a game that meant nothing.  Maybe not quite as much, but certainly not nothing.

  • @unsympathetic said:

    I was in the stadium when the refs totally failed on the Browns TD when they returned the Ravens fumble.. which lost us the game.  Every Ravens fan [seats are expensive, they're smart] around me agreed we should have had the TD. I'm over it.

    Refs admitted they missed multiple calls which would have given us a win vs Raiders - and therefore put us in the playoffs if the above fumble had been called correctly.

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    @dutch-oven said:

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    @mark-o said:

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    But ...of course....unlike that kind of play.....there is no opportunity to correct the call via instant replay on an interference call.

  • @mark-o said:

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    But ...of course....unlike that kind of play.....there is no opportunity to correct the call via instant replay on an interference call.

    @the-gipper said:

    But ...of course....unlike that kind of play.....there is no opportunity to correct the call via instant replay on an interference call.

    Hopefully that will change.  I think it should be reviewable as should all roughing the passer and also the helmet to helmet hits.   Give the coaches one extra challenge and let them review all those things.  Won't slow the game down any and they can get the calls right. 

  • @the-gipper said:

    But ...of course....unlike that kind of play.....there is no opportunity to correct the call via instant replay on an interference call.

    Hopefully that will change.  I think it should be reviewable as should all roughing the passer and also the helmet to helmet hits.   Give the coaches one extra challenge and let them review all those things.  Won't slow the game down any and they can get the calls right. 

    @mark-o said:

    Hopefully that will change.  I think it should be reviewable as should all roughing the passer and also the helmet to helmet hits.   Give the coaches one extra challenge and let them review all those things.  Won't slow the game down any and they can get the calls right. 

    Not sure why the NFL should give a rat's ass about "slowing the game down".   The game is slowed down tremendously with all their TV timeouts....this would absolutely add little to the length of a game comparatively.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Are you seriously comparing a non-TD in a Browns game that meant nothing to the Saints missing out on a Super Bowl trip?

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    @mark-o said:

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    so, it wasn't a TD, wouldn't a ref think it may have been, but rule it a fumble, let the play continue, then on replay, overrule it?

    ruling it a TD when it was that close, and NOT a TD, was a travesty. I don't see how it's legit to give the refs a pass on a questionable call. Let the play continue, replay will show the truth of the TD or not. I still call BS on the play.

  • @mark-o said:

    And the fact that the one in the Browns game was one that in real time, 99% of the referees would've called it exactly the same way as it was called in the game.    The call in the Saints game was one that everyone watching on tv and in the stadium in real time could see that in was interference without question. 

    The call against the Browns on the goal line went exactly the same way the very next weekend and was called against the Ravens and if the review had come back that it was a fumble, it would've cost them a TD as well.  

    To me....the call against the Browns in that game was not all that bad of a call.   It was unfortunate that it happened but in real time it sure looked like a TD.   The replay had to be slowed down and paused to tell the ball didn't make it to the goal line.  When it takes that kind of scrutiny to determine what happened, its hard to expect an official to see it on the field in real time.

    so, it wasn't a TD, wouldn't a ref think it may have been, but rule it a fumble, let the play continue, then on replay, overrule it?

    ruling it a TD when it was that close, and NOT a TD, was a travesty. I don't see how it's legit to give the refs a pass on a questionable call. Let the play continue, replay will show the truth of the TD or not. I still call BS on the play.

    @calfoxwc said:

    so, it wasn't a TD, wouldn't a ref think it may have been, but rule it a fumble, let the play continue, then on replay, overrule it?

    ruling it a TD when it was that close, and NOT a TD, was a travesty. I don't see how it's legit to give the refs a pass on a questionable call. Let the play continue, replay will show the truth of the TD or not. I still call BS on the play.

    That play gets called that way in every game of every single Sunday.  It wasn't some great conspiracy against the Browns.   In fact as I pointed out..it was called the same way against the Ravens the very next Sunday.

  • not when it's a fumble before you can call it. It was a very early whistle.

    Officials costs Browns a TD with early whistle against Ravens

    "Officials correctly ruled that Browns defensive lineman Larry Ogunjobi forced a fumble and that Peppers recovered it at the 7-yard line, wiping the Ravens touchdown off the board."

    So, all I'm saying is, how the heyl can they have correctly ruled it a fumble and recovery by the Browns, then blow the whistle ? If they blew the whistle before the fumble, the play is dead. But...

    yeah. I don't know - the NFL said it was a blown call, right on time vs the Browns.

  • The Rams defender who hit the receiver has been fined $27,000 for the helmet to helmet hit ....rubs salt in Saints wounds

  • not when it's a fumble before you can call it. It was a very early whistle.

    Officials costs Browns a TD with early whistle against Ravens

    "Officials correctly ruled that Browns defensive lineman Larry Ogunjobi forced a fumble and that Peppers recovered it at the 7-yard line, wiping the Ravens touchdown off the board."

    So, all I'm saying is, how the heyl can they have correctly ruled it a fumble and recovery by the Browns, then blow the whistle ? If they blew the whistle before the fumble, the play is dead. But...

    yeah. I don't know - the NFL said it was a blown call, right on time vs the Browns.

    @calfoxwc said:

    not when it's a fumble before you can call it. It was a very early whistle.

    Officials costs Browns a TD with early whistle against Ravens

    "Officials correctly ruled that Browns defensive lineman Larry Ogunjobi forced a fumble and that Peppers recovered it at the 7-yard line, wiping the Ravens touchdown off the board."

    So, all I'm saying is, how the heyl can they have correctly ruled it a fumble and recovery by the Browns, then blow the whistle ? If they blew the whistle before the fumble, the play is dead. But...

    yeah. I don't know - the NFL said it was a blown call, right on time vs the Browns.

    How could they blow the whistle before the fumble, when he fumbled during the act of extending the ball towards the goaline?  The play was blown dead because they ruled it a TD, then overturned the call on review.

    ETA: as Mark said, very next week the same thing happened. I don't mind the call against the browns, as that's how those plays are consistently called. So yeah, it was a mistake...but it's an easy one to make and was only able to be assertained a wrong call by frame by frame analysis.